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Chopper's Politics

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🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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NB: This podcast was recorded and released on Wednesday 4th May 2022, before polls opened for local elections.

Join Christopher Hope for this pre-local elections special of Chopper's Politics. Chris chews the fact with our Whitehall correspondent Tony Diver in the lobby room about how it might go for all the major parties, and whether more eyes should be on Stormont on polling day. Plus Chris talks to the residents of Wandsworth, a totemic Tory-held council that could turn Red for the first time in a generation.

Also on the podcast, Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle introduces Chris to Speaker Charlena White, Speaker for Montserrat, about what the UK should do for its Overseas Territories, whether phones should be banned on the benches, and Sir Lindsay refuses to be drawn yet again about the full bottom wig...

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0:00.0	Coming up and Chappas Politics.
0:04.0	Did you wear Wicks, but you're saying you're saying you're having a parliament?
0:07.0	I don't even have the proper robe.
0:09.0	We don't have to say regalia.
0:11.0	Chris is obsessed with weeks.
0:13.2	Anyway.
0:14.0	Hello from the lobby room in the House of Commons and welcome to Choppers Politics.
0:20.2	I'm Christopher Hope, Associate Editor of for the Daily Telegraph, and today I'm bringing you a pre-local
0:26.4	election special edition of Chopper's Politics Podcast.
0:30.9	Yes, that's right.
0:31.9	We're on the cusp of the most significant mid-term elections since the last ones.
0:36.0	Let's try that again. We are on the cusp of the most significant mid-term elections of Boris Johnson Johnson three-year term as
0:43.3	Prime Minister so far. That's better.
0:46.8	Tomorrow millions of voters will go to the polls to decide who they want in charge
0:50.6	of their bin collections, local libraries and fixing their road potholes.
0:56.0	However, these elections are much more than that.
0:59.0	This will be the biggest opinion poll of Boris Johnson's popularity as Prime Minister since the last general
1:05.7	election in 2019, and arguably the most significant one for Sir Kir-Stama since he became
1:12.2	leader of the Labour Party.
1:14.9	And the results could mean that either or both men could be facing questions about their
1:19.4	leadership in the near future.
1:22.0	Now later in this episode you'll hear a report I did with the Telegraph video team from Wandsworth
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